The Homecoming: James Frain completes cast, now opening on 13 Dec 2007

English actor James Frain completes the cast for the 40th anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, playing Teddy, the eldest son of Max, who returns home from America with his new wife.

He joins the previously announced Ian McShane, Ra�l Esparza, Michael McKean and Eve Best and Gareth Saxe.

The Homecoming will now officially open at the Cort Theatre on 13 Dec 2007, and not the 9 Dec as originally scheduled. The show will run for a twenty week engagement, previewing from 23 Nov 2007, and running through to 13 Apr 2008.

James Frain will be making his Broadway debut in The Homecoming. He is currently appearing as Thomas Cromwell in the television series 'The Tudors.' London theatre credits include: 'Other People' for the Royal Court, Edmond in 'King Lear' for the Almeida, Hastings in 'She Stoops to Conquer' for The Peter Hall Comany, and 'Zenobia' for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Film credits include: Shadowlands, Elizabeth, Hilary and Jackie.

The Homecoming concerns the ultimate dysfunctional family, presided over by its patriarch Max (McShane). Living under his dilapidated roof are his younger brother Sam (McKean), and two of his sons: Lenny (Esparza), the town pimp, and Joey (Saxe), a boxer-in-training.

Tensions begin to flair with the arrival of Max's eldest son Teddy, who returns home after six years with his new wife Ruth (Eve Best). Seduction, betrayal, and divisiveness ensue, as the family welcomes the homecoming of its estranged brother and vies for the attention of his dangerously alluring wife."

This will be the second revival of The Homecoming on Broadway. The play had its Broadway premiere at the Musix Box Theatre in 1967, and its first revival in 1991 at The Criterion Center Stage Right (Theatre now closed).

Pinter, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005, is the author of The Birthday Party, Betrayal, Old Times, No Man's Land, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter, Ashes to Ashes, and Celebration.

The design team features Eugene Lee (Sets), Kenneth Posner (lighting), and Jess Goldstein (costumes). The play is being produced on Broadway by Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel.